Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 54

Current music plan: once I've exported my list of favourite tracks, close down Deezer account. Was costing me £9.99 a month. (When I first signed up someone told me it paid better to artists than Spotify, but I don't know how true that is anymore and even if so, it's probably still negligible amount.)

Host the tracks I own on personal streaming server (currently funkwhale on digitalocean, ~£4 month.) Buy tracks direct from bandcamp where possible, max £4 a month. £2 a month to resonate.

@rachel Uh.. this article: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take 😅

@rachel I liked this article recently about what you can do with RSS/Atom.

Woop woop! Listening to a track, offline, through Ultrasonic, that was originally served up by my newly installed funkwhale instance.

So... probably would have been a lot quicker just to copy it to my mobile. But hey now I know a lot more about docker-compose and nginx than I did before!

#funkwhale

@celesteh It seems very slow to pick up DNS changes.

What would you recommend to use as a DNS resolver? Is https://1.1.1.1 OK?

#dns

Oooh funkwhale has user libraries and funkwhale is compatible with Subsonic API and Ultrasonic is a Subsonic client app on f-droid that supports offline listening.

This just got very interesting...

#funkwhale

Funkwhale has some handy docs on its implementation of ActivityPub.

https://docs.funkwhale.audio/federation/index.html

Gives a few basic hints as to how you might go about actually implementing ActivityPub in an app with a DB.

@dajbelshaw Have you looked at Ubports? Seems like it's still flying the flag for a non-duopoly option. . I like the fact they've put an emphasis on making installation easy.

I'd love to try it but my device has a locked and encrypted bootloader so I'm kind of stuck for now.

I wish with Firefox OS if it had been targeted to run on old phones, rather than newly manufactured Firefox OS devices.

OK so got a basic gist of ActivityPub I think... Objects are things like notes. Activities are things like creating or liking these objects. Actors post messages to or get messages from inboxes and outboxes to send these activities around. There's a client-to-server part for actors to send messages to their server. And a server-to-server part to federate and deliver messages between actors on different servers.

Plenty more to it than that but enough to get by with!

Yeahhh I find code kata really fun and relaxing. No stress, no mega problem to solve. Like doing a jigsaw or something. Just did a little PHP Fibonnaci one with spacemacs, git and behat. Nice easy way to improve with your tools.

The ActivityPub spec is only a 47 minute read according to Wallabag. I can do that.

Hey, looks like @Gin and @mayel are on the case with https://haha.academy!

Do we really need a StateBook? https://newsocialist.org.uk/do-we-really-need-a-statebook/

The conclusion, with which I would agree, is: no. It would be centralised services just of another kind.

Good though to see a major political party recognising that the centralisation of the social graph with the big digital giants is not a good thing.

But a better solution is the support of open standards and protocols, and control and portability of data.

ActivityPub hot take. https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2535-ActivityPub-hot-take

I don't have a deep understanding of much of it, but the general gist seems to be that RSS/Atom can do plenty of what ActivityPub can do, with its own benefits and easier implementation.

I couldn't argue either way, but interesting to read. I'm happy there's a plurality of approaches to this decentralisation movement, that's a healthy sign.

A critique of federation (in the technical sense).

https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/

Are privacy concerns inherent to federation? Dunno. The idea of decoupling data ownership from applications is good though. It reminds me of Solid and its data pods idea.

https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-for-the-decentralized-web/

And of course indieweb which I commented a while back Solid reminded me of but surprisingly the Solid peeps made no reference to.

https://doubleloop.net/2018/01/09/paradigm-shifts-decentralized-web/

@douginamug @nicksellen I haven't heard the term before Doug but I'll have a read of the article, thanks for sharing. What is it that you like about vacancy tax?